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Reminder: Credit card security seminar this Friday (Feb. 11)

K-Staters who handle credit card information should attend this Friday’s IT security roundtable on credit card security if they missed the same seminar given Jan. 14. The Feb. 11 seminar is 9-10 a.m. in Hale 501 (the Hemisphere Room) and presented by Harvard Townsend, K-State’s chief information security officer.

See last week’s IT Tuesday article for more details.

Credit card security seminar to be repeated Feb. 11

Due to popular demand, the IT security roundtable on protecting credit card information will be repeated 9-10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 11, in Hale 501. This is a repeat of the seminar given Jan. 14 on the Manhattan campus and Feb. 1 on the Salina campus.

The payment card industry (PCI) has rather strict security requirements for any merchant that accepts credit cards for payment. If your department at K-State accepts credit card payments, then you must comply with these data security standards (DSS), for which version 2.0 was recently published.

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IT security roundtable Jan. 14: Protecting credit card information

The next SIRT-sponsored IT security roundtable is 9-10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 14, in Hale 301 on the topic of protecting credit card information. The payment card industry (PCI) has rather strict security requirements for any merchant that accepts credit cards for payment.

If your department at K-State accepts credit card payments, then you must comply with these data security standards (DSS), for which version 2.0 was recently published.

Harvard Townsend, K-State’s chief information security officer, will provide an overview of PCI DSS 2.0 and plans for compliance at K-State. Continue reading “IT security roundtable Jan. 14: Protecting credit card information”

IT security roundtable Jan. 14: Protecting credit card information

The next SIRT-sponsored IT security roundtable will be in 9-10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 14, 2011, in Hale 301 on the topic of protecting credit card information. The payment card industry (PCI) has rather strict security requirements for any merchant that accepts credit cards for payment. If your department at K-State accepts credit card payments, then you must comply with these data security standards (DSS), for which version 2.0 was recently published.

Harvard Townsend, K-State’s chief information security officer, will provide an overview of PCI DSS 2.0 and plans for compliance at K-State. This primer will benefit both the staff who handle credit card transactions for a department as well as the IT staff who support the technology associated with credit card payments.

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